The Qualys Cloud Platform and its integrated apps can simplify security operations and lower the cost of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on demand and automating the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT systems and web applications. Qualys Scanner Appliance is an option with the Qualys Cloud Platform. With the Qualys Scanner Appliance, you can easily…
Layered Security & Defense In Depth A layered approach to security can be implemented at any level of a complete information security strategy. Whether you are the administrator of only a single computer, accessing the Internet from home or a coffee shop, or the go-to guy for a thirty thousand user enterprise WAN, a layered approach to security tools deployment…
Security Architecture Roadmap
Web Bench is a very simple tool for benchmarking WWW or proxy servers. This benchmark is not very realistic, but it can test if your HTTPD can really handle so many clients at once without taking your machine down. https://github.com/tamlok/webbench Install
Accessmgr account unlock / reset Log in to the CLI and run the following command: support reset-password accessmgr<N>|random. You can use <N> or random where <N> is a number in the range of 10000000 – 99999999. Random automatically generates a number in the range of 10000000 – 99999999. Open a PMR with IBM Guardium support and send the following output. G10.ibm.com>…
GitHub is a Git repository hosting service, but it adds many of its own features. While Git is a command line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface. It also provides access control and several collaboration features, such as a wikis and basic task management tools for every project. This post is going to show some basic GitHub usage during…
Create CentOS 7 VM & Update sudo -i yum update -y yum install epel-release yum-utils -y yum clean install Install Nginx yum install nginx -y service nginx start *browser to VM’s public IP to test sudo systemctl enable nginx sudo systemctl start nginx
GIM & S-Tap Download 1.) Download GIM to Assigned Database servers 1.) https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ 2.) Select the current/correct Fix Pack. This implementation is Guardium v11 GIM, S-TAP, GIM AIX & S-TAP AIX GIM & S-Tap Installation 3.) Install only GIM Client on database server (.sh) Note: require root and executable permission a) Log onto LPAR b) Sudo to Root c) Upload…
Guardium Project Overview The project scope is to implement the IBM InfoSphere Guardium V11 VM appliances by utilizing the Guardium Installation Manager (GIM) to setup and monitor privileged user activities at ITProSec Toronto data center. During the course of the implementation we completed the following tasks: ü How to install Guardium Collector and central manager? ü How to deploy GIM,…
